RarZilla Free Unrar

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Editors' Review

When all you've is got a hammer, every problem looks suspiciously like a nail. RarZilla is a great little utility for automatically unraring RAR archives, but it doesn't do much else. Depending on whether that's all you're looking for, RarZilla is either just the tool you need or woefully inadequate.

The program does a wonderful job of unzipping--sorry, unraring--RARs, and it provides three methods for achieving that goal. You can select the "RarZilla!" option from the context menu associated with any RAR file in Windows Explorer, you can double-click the RAR, or you can drag and drop the RAR onto the program interface. To aid in the last one, the program is permanently set to live on top unless you minimize it. We found that annoying, but your mileage may vary. It extracts the compressed files to the same folder in which the RAR lives. RarZilla is squarely aimed at those users who predominantly use the RAR format. Fans of other archive formats should look elsewhere for an extractor or a traditional archiving/unarchiving tool.

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Publisher's Description

RarZilla Free Unrar is a beautiful decompression tool for RAR-archives that support spanned archives as well as the extraction of password protected files. Decompression can be started by drag 'n' drop, double click or shell integrated context menu. To speed the whole process up, RarZilla has the option to define a default output folder or a default password or both.

I scanned the installer named InstallRarZilla.exe with VirusTotal (https://www.virustotal.com/de/file/8aa578d516fe48a03c7bffcd03d4639d92f1be77ebae08f74daf6aac521abef4/analysis/1418950814/) and 53 out of 53 virus scanners flag it as clean. Two thumbs up!

Cons

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UnRARs with NO PROBLEM - did NOT load any malware. (AVG detected and removed the malware wannabe...) Works fine for me - did not hijack home page. BUT, even if it did, resetting home page is really no big deal....

Cons

Only con may be limited usefulness.... but am fully aware of that. Just added this as one of several tools.

Absolutely NOTHING!! THEY FORCED ME TO RATE THIS 1 STAR IN ORDER TO ALERT YOU ABOUT THIS MALWARE. THEY SHOULD HAVE AN OPTION SO YOU COULD AT LEAST PUT ZERO STARS. IF I COULD I WOULD RATE IT ONE MILLION NEGATIVE STARS!

Cons

DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS - IT CONTAINS TROVI MALWARE! I am SHOCKED that CNET Editors give a browser hijack malware program an "Excellent" rating. WHAT!!! Why are they being complicit with malware that hijacks your browser?????????????

I tried to get rid of this malware using Norton, that didn't work. I then tried Malwarebytes, and while that removed part of the problem, I didn't get rid of it completely until I downloaded and ran ADWCleaner.

Summary

CNET YOU NEED TO TAKE THIS OFF YOUR WEBSITE IMMEDIATELY!!! YOU ARE HELPING TROVI INFECT THOUSANDS OF COMPUTERS BY GIVING IT AN EXCELLENT RATING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When installing this file no other programs where indicated. But right after that browser home pages gone, search engines changed. and adds for products poping up. Don't download this file many problems and fixes needed.

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